Ephesians 2:8-9 "For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast"

Sunday, August 23, 2015

MT ELGON MISSION TRIP - LOCAL B& B

Well, I'm back from two weeks of intensity so I am relaxing and
trying to get back to normal whatever that is. It
was really a great trip despite being difficult. There
were about 40 people there and they were
so appreciative. One older pastor said on the last day that he had
broken down and wept thanking God that they had been sent this truth.
One of the young pastors from Uganda wants to organize a conferences for us
in Uganda and in Rwanda. An interesting
open door.

Just to give you a little example
of the food: I was outside one day and saw the kids all of
a sudden running to a place where it looked like there
were thousands of locusts streaming out of a whole in the
ground. They began to try to catch them using blankets. I
asked Harrison what was going on and he told me they were
termites (not the same kind of termites that eat wood).
They were considered a delicacy and they were catching
them to eat. So that night for supper they had fried
termites. I tried them but they tasted like fried insects
to me and I went back to my peanut butter and jam.

I really didn't know what to expect in the property that that Harrison rented for us-at $15 a
month no one really knows. It wasn't a bad little house although it very
badly needed paint and other work. It beats sleeping in a
tent and even had electricity. They put some
mattresses and blankets and a few plastic chairs and kitchen utensils so we had what we needed. The kitchen was basically just a
small room--no sink, counters, or anything else for that matter. We brought a two burner gas stove and a gas cylinder to cook on. Steve did
the cooking and it was a challenge to eat just what they ate. I
brought some peanut butter and jam and I went through all of it pretty fast.

The bathroom was outside and was a dirty concrete
room with a hole. There was another concrete room for the shower. There was no running water in the house so to take a shower you had to get water from a
barrel, heat it on the stove, and then take it outside to the shower
room in a plastic basin and do the best you could. On the plus side
we were right across the street from where we taught so it was
convenient.

The area there is really beautiful lush green valleys and
mountains. The weather was beautiful.Everybody told me to expect it to be very cold but it was perfect.

As missionaries we consider cross-cultural missions to be a thrilling expedition, full of challenges and discoveries. Our travels take us to some amazing places and people. As we leave our "base camp" we are blessed to ‘forge streams’ of new relationships and ‘climb mountains’ with those who survive solely on hope. It's a wonderful adventure. Please join us. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. Ephesians 3:14-16, the apostle Paul

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

ADVENTURE OUTREACH-A GREAT TIME FOR KIDS TO HEAR THE NAME OF "JESUS"

TEACHING

INTERNATIONAL ARTS IN HEALTHCARE

Global mental health care and art therapy training.

THANKS - HUGH JACKMAN

MORE ABOUT SHERP HELPERS: 14 April 2009 by Sarah Arnesen-Festival Film

Actor Hugh Jackman of the X-Men and Australia stepped in to record a special introduction to the film Moja Moja for the final days of the Borderlines Film Festival. Moja Moja, made by former Hereford Art School¹s Sam Oliver, and featuring children at a Kenyan orphanage, was given a charity screening at the Festival. Sam flew home from filming in Mexico to introduce his film: ³We re-edited the film for Borderlines after Hugh agreed to add his special introduction for the Festival.² Jackman¹s intervention has helped raise $100,000 for the orphanage said Sam who presented Moja Moja at The Courtyard where, ten years ago, he once worked as one of the projectionists.

HUGH JACKMAN HELPS SHERP

Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness have a heart for helping those less fortunate.

Int'l Arts in Healthcare

Paula Taylor has worked with survivors of traumatic experiences, including domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse, disaster and terminal and life threatening illness. She uses techniques that significantly enhance trauma therapy by providing children the opportunity to express their trauma experience through multiple creative approaches.